If Imus was black and said the exact same thing he said about the Rutgers women's basketball team would anyone be complaining?

Irrelevant. Although Fox News, "Mary Gallan", and other right-wingers want to deflect the attention from Imus and onto how African-Americans talk amongst themselves there's no getting around the fact that Don Imus is a white racist pig. Right-wingers seem determined to blame rappers for Don's mouth but it's clear from his history of racial and gender based slurs that he is a bigot pure and simple. Please note that the link only gives bigotry emanating out of the mouth of Don Imus himself and does not include the many other vicious slurs uttered by his sidekicks that have been broadcast on his show.

Don't take my condemnation of Imus to mean I like rappers talking trash about women. But Imus and his sidekicks regularly attack Jews, women, and especially blacks. That's outrageous and has nothing to do with what other fools may have to say whether they be white or black.

Furthermore, black Americans do not have a history of oppressing other blacks as do white Americans. Blacks didn't invent white-only restaurants, bathrooms, or turn firehoses on other blacks for trying to march with Martin Luther King. Whites did that. The fact that some black Americans may themselves be bigots or demonstrate misogyny, while regrettable, certainly cannot excuse an open bigot such as Don Imus being given legitimacy by national networks such as MSNBC or CBS.

Don Imus is getting exactly what he has so long deserved.

His comments weren't merely racist, they were sexist.

...If Imus was black and said the exact same thing he said about the Rutgers women's basketball team would anyone be complaining?

Yawn. We'd have ham and eggs - if we had some ham - and if we had some eggs.

...If Imus was black...

He isn't.

To get anyone to even address the substance of your faux righteous indignation, you're first going to need to identify a real example of your "hypothetical" talking head - you know, one with a long running radio show that's syndicated nationally and simulcast on a cable news network - who was stupid enough to make the same comment as Imus.
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While we're waiting you can tell us what you think of the substance of Imus' remarks about the young women on the basketball team. Did you think his remarks were justified under any circumstance? Hurtful? Unfair? Mean?
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Your straining deeply to avoid the point makes mine!

Being liberal or progressive shouldn't mean we are captive to the handcuffs of political correctness.  Imus is an idiot and crabby one at that but he isn't a racist.  His comment was stupid and would have been inoculated if only he was black.  Sharpton and Jesse can scam (how rich are they now?  Has Jesse EVER called for a boycott of a company where the company did NOT give him PERSONALLY millions of dollars?) and say anything they want (their open and rampant anti-semitism is only overshadowed by their money-grubbing).

I remember Stevie Wonder singing about when he was "just a nappy-headed boy" (OH WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE!).

This issue isn't about racism it is about rampant political correctness and the cowardice of many "liberals" and "progressives" when it comes to race.

By the way:  When IS Sharpton going to apologize to the abused Duke Lacrosse players?

And from where did the slang "ho" enter the American lexicon?  In what music is it used liberally?  See... political correctness is a curse...

My feelings would have remained the same even if he were black.

I don't think ethnicity is an excuse for derogatory, racial comments.

If he was Black, he'd be off the air.

As one of my local columnists wrote in the newspaper..

" Not even the hardest of hard core gangsta rappers would dare call a Black woman a nappy-headed ho."

As a  Black woman, I agree with this completely, because if he did, he wouldn't expect to get out of that room without being physically hurt.

And I mean that.